[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [Republics in Ancient India, c. 1500 B.C.–500 B.C.](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1968) › c7.464 # Republics in Ancient India, c. 1500 B.C.–500 B.C. c7.464 Republics in Ancient India, c. 1500 B.C.–500 B.C. c7.464 - **Language:** English ### [c7.464](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1968.c7.464) 29. Immortal sacrificer, god with wondrous power (Agni), he leads the way—urging the great \*vidathas\* on.¹ 30. We have beheld the brightness of her (Dawn's) shining; it spreads and drives away the darksome monster. Like tints that deck the post at the \*vidathas\*, heaven's daughter has attained her wondrous splendour.² 31. Bring ye (Viśvedevas) the great Aramati (? personification of religious worship) before you, and Pūṣan as the hero of the \*vidatha\*. Bhaga who looks upon this hymn with favour, and, as our strength, the bountiful Purandhi.³ 32. In every age bestow upon the singers wealth, worthy of the \*vidatha\*, glorious, ever new. King (Agni) undecaying, as it were with sharpened bolt, smite down the sinner like a tree with lightning-flash.⁴ 33. Like babes in arms reposing on their mothers, let the gods (Viśvedevas) sit upon the grass's summit. Let general fire make bright the flame of worship: scorn us not Agni, in the gods' \*vidatha\*.⁵ 34. Thou (Lightning) whom all the gods created, the bold one (the gods) making all anew for hurling—do thou be sung in the \*vidatha\*, be merciful to us; To thee as such be homage, O Goddess.⁶ 35. What of you is joyous, O Fathers, and delectable (\*somya\*), there will be at hand, for you are of (your) own splendour, Do you, rapid poets, listen, invoked at the \*vidatha\*.⁷ 36. Come you (Agni) obstructing the track of death, assuming furthermore a longer lifetime; Sitting in your station (\*sadhasthe\*), thrust away death; Then may we, living, speak to the \*vidatha\*.⁸ 37. Thou (sun) goest about Tṛta (?), thou goest about the fountain of a thousand streams, the heaven-gaining \*vidatha\*. Thine O Indra, are heroisms manifold; do thou fill us with cattle of all forms, set me in comfort in the highest firmament.⁹ 38. The offered \*ghee\*, the milk, which is in the ruddy (kine), that is your portion here, ye Aśvins; come, - [Previous: c7.463](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1968.c7.463) - [Next: c7.465](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1968.c7.465) - [Up: c7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1968.c7) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1968.c7.464](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1968.c7.464) · Pramāṇa